Sitting only 30 miles from the Alps, Munich is the capital and most populous city of Bavaria. It's Germany's third-largest city behind Berlin and Hamburg. Many consider it to be one of the most livable cities in Europe. Arriving at…
We caught a train in Munich and headed south to Füssen, a small German town in the Bavarian Alps about a mile from the Austrian border. Though we had already visited castles on the Rhine River, we were on our…
We got up early to take a walk before breakfast. The streets were quiet and only a few other people roamed the town. Yesterday's tourists had either gone back to the cities or were still asleep. The sunlight peeking over…
Catching the morning train out of Bacharach, we left the Rhine River behind. Its upstream path continued south to its birthplace in Switzerland; our path swung to the southeast. In Germany (other European countries, too, I suspect) you can get…
(After a holiday hiatus, this post continues from Walls and Wine.) Following a nice breakfast in Bacharach, we took a short train ride to St. Goar for a day trip. This is another quaint town with half-timbered buildings along the…
Winter can be cold and dark and make you long for longer days. But it can also be a magical time of year when snowflakes dance through the air and icicles become exclamation points for the season. Recently, our landscape…
I had difficulty sleeping last night. Christmas is coming and it's unlikely that we will have any happy memories from this crazy corona year. While I was lying quietly in the darkness, suddenly the air turned cold and I heard…
Back on the train, we continued our journey south. In Koblenz we transferred to another train, which eventually took us to Bacharach, a town of about 2,000. I wasn't quite sure where our hotel was located, so we stopped an…
Bonn, also on the Rhine River, is only about 15 miles south of Cologne. So, while in Cologne, we decided to make a day trip to Bonn. The train ride was very short and when we got off at the…